The Strategic Business Review delivers insight for companies, investors
and nations looking for growth opportunities in this fast developing and
widely hyped market, together with actionable recommendations that will
help to minimise risk and at the same time avoid the danger of failure
to act in a timely enough fashion.

The companion Big Report is an in-depth technical look at the market,
used to inform the strategic business review, containing case studies,
stats, trends and meaningful analysis about the likely future of the
smart grid.

The reports:

- Highlight the path to sustainable growth for all players

- Present a commercial model of the smart grid

- Map the emerging smart network and confronts the conventional vision
behind it

- Outline the key challenge in ICT and data management that needs to be
resolved

- Examine the way that the smart grid is catalysing the entry of new
players into the utility marketplace

- Look at how grid evolution is leading to the emergence of 3 new
business models

- Highlight strategic issues and critical success requirements for
different players in the market including locked-in markets and format
wars

- Recommend strategies for success in the smart grid revolution for each
player

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